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As many as nine generators have operated simultaneously at the site since then, with seven on site now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city alleges several violations of the state fire code and city ordinances, including operating the generators, using and storing diesel fuel without permits and exposing workers and residents at the complex to diesel fumes that pose “a grave risk to health and safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Monday notice says failure to stop using the generators by April 22 could result in the company having its property declared a public nuisance and being fined as much as $1,000 a day. The city also warned Green Sage that if it doesn’t comply, it could be referred to the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office for criminal prosecution of the alleged fire code violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The notice included 20 images of conditions at the two Green Sage properties, including two huge diesel generators stationed adjacent to the soot-blackened facade of one of the buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908996\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11908996\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM-800x450.png\" alt=\"Large diesel generators outside industrial building.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM-800x450.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM-1020x573.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM-160x90.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM-1536x864.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM-1920x1079.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM.png 1946w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Images from city of Oakland’s notice of violation to Green Sage, the Denver-based owners of the East Oakland cannabis facility. 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It was one of Oakland’s first live/work artists’ communities and the long-time home of the celebrated \u003ca href=\"https://openspace.sfmoma.org/2019/10/a-restless-philosophical-quest-the-art-of-arthur-monroe/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">abstract expressionist painter Arthur Monroe\u003c/a>. He became the building’s first artist-tenant in the mid-1970s and lived there until his death in 2019 at age 84.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Oakland Cannery residents\"]‘We are done asking nicely and are now demanding that the generators be shut down.’[/pullquote] Deteriorating living conditions at the building since Green Sage acquired it — including the 24/7 diesel emissions from the unpermitted generators — have reduced the number of tenants in its 20 residential units from 32 to 10 over the last two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cannery resident Alistair Monroe — the son of painter Arthur Monroe — and former building manager James Dawson have been leading efforts to get the city to respond to the generators and say it’s past time for decisive official action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That led them to send an emailed ultimatum earlier this week to city officials giving them until Thursday afternoon to have the generators shut down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are done asking nicely and are now demanding that the generators be shut down,” the email from Monroe and Dawson said, warning they would join with community supporters to shut down the generators themselves if the city didn’t act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Monroe and Dawson said they might be able to do that by blocking tanker trucks that each day deliver the thousands of gallons of diesel fuel the generators need to keep running.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monroe said that the ultimatum remains in place despite the city’s new violation notice to Green Sage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have NO FAITH that letter will resolve any issues with Green Sage,” Monroe said in an email after the city sent the notice of violation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908992\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54587_20220317-IMG_6443-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11908992\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54587_20220317-IMG_6443-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Alistair Monroe posing outside the red-brick Cannery building in East Oakland.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54587_20220317-IMG_6443-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54587_20220317-IMG_6443-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54587_20220317-IMG_6443-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54587_20220317-IMG_6443-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54587_20220317-IMG_6443-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Resident Alistair Monroe at The Cannery live/work building in East Oakland. Monroe, whose artist father lived at the building for more than 40 years, has been one of the tenants leading the fight to preserve it as a live/work space. ‘So, I’ve been told by professors that because of me and my history that I’d been prepping subconsciously, throughout my life, to protect this building. And I’m doing everything I can in my power to do it. So it’s been like, how do you go up against a billion-dollar operation? You just do it with heart and soul, right?’ Monroe said. \u003ccite>(Amaya Nicole Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he threatened generator shutdown action follows years of efforts by Monroe, Dawson and other tenants to get the city’s attention about conditions at The Cannery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They met with initial success when the City Council passed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13826417/new-oakland-law-could-prevent-cannabis-companies-from-evicting-tenants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an ordinance\u003c/a> in 2018 barring residential evictions in Oakland’s so-called “Green Zone,” a 10-mile-long, L-shaped strip on the edges of West and East Oakland designated for industrial cannabis operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Cannery residents also have succeeded in \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21480652/city-of-oakland-march-16-2022-advisory-to-green-sage-on-cannery-livework-spaces.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">getting the city to warn Green Sage and its cannabis tenants\u003c/a> against expanding operations into vacated live/work spaces, which is prohibited by the 2018 measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ve had far less success getting action on the generators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have been alerting the people who have the ability to do something about this for quite a long time,” Dawson said. “And I don’t know if it’s a bureaucratic process or what it is, but it’s just not stopping. Twenty months is a long time for this to go on sort of uninterrupted 24 hours a day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until Monday’s notice of violation, residents’ complaints about the generators have led to several preliminary enforcement actions by both the city of Oakland and regional air regulators.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align-\"right\" citation=\"Michael Hunt, Oakland Fire Department\"]‘The generators were at no time permitted as a permanent power source.’[/pullquote]Michael Hunt, the Oakland Fire Department’s chief of staff, said in an email earlier this month that the generators should only have been used on a temporary basis and “were never meant for ongoing use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Typically, Hunt said, a generator would be approved and permitted for 90 days. He said temporary approval was granted after the July 2020 transformer failure “to ensure that the live/work tenants [at The Cannery] had power. … The generators were at no time permitted as a permanent power source.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that residents are getting power from PG&E, “there is no justifiable need for the generators to be in use to keep power on in the live work units,” Hunt said. “The multiple unpermitted generators now are only augmenting the need for power to support the cannabis-related businesses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green Sage also has come to the attention of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District. Last month the district filed its own \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21480754/bay-area-air-quality-management-district-green-sage-notice-of-violation-feb-16-2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">notice of violation\u003c/a> against the company for failing to obtain a permit to operate the generators. The notice prompted Green Sage to apply for an air district permit, but the agency said as of Monday that application remained incomplete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent interview at the site, Councilmember Taylor said he was “frankly upset that the warehouse owners have been using industrial diesel generators as a permanent power source.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Generators are intended to be temporary, while we’re bridging a gap, not to be a long-term fixture in the community polluting and pushing out the chemicals into the air,” Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he’d expressed his concerns to city staff about ending the generators’ unpermitted use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11909005\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11909005 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-800x541.jpg\" alt=\"A large tanker truck is parked alongside a long metal fence in an industrial area. Across the street are the elevated BART tracks.\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-800x541.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-1020x690.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-1536x1039.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tanker delivering diesel fuel to industrial generators outside the Green Sage cannabis complex on San Leandro Street in East Oakland. Seven generators at the site require daily fuel deliveries and burn more than 2,000 gallons of fuel a day. \u003ccite>(Amaya Nicole Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That is something that we absolutely need to get on top of,” Taylor said. “We need to do more to ensure that it has stopped.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier attempts by city officials to address Green Sage code violations show just how hard it has been for them to get on top of the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last October, inspectors from three city agencies toured the Green Sage complex. That inspection, in turn, resulted in \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21423379/city-of-oakland-december-2021-green-sage-violation-notice.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a Dec. 7 letter\u003c/a> from city officials to Green Sage partners Greer and Miller. The missive noted the “collapsed” PG&E transformer, unpermitted electrical work and the installation of the diesel generators “without city-required inspections and permits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter said Greer and Miller would need to get both a Fire Department permit and sign-off from the city’s Bureau of Building “for interim use” of the generators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The message closed by warning the Green Sage owners that “failure to work with the city and take meaningful corrective measures to bring the identified issues into code compliance will result in the city seeking any and all appropriate legal remedies including fines, criminal penalties, suspension or revocation of any operational or occupancy permits and removal of the generators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunt said inspectors returned to the company’s San Leandro Street properties in early January and “confirmed that state and local fire code violations were present and must be remedied.” But the generators have continued running nonstop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n response to emailed questions last month, Greer said the generators are necessary because PG&E isn’t supplying enough electricity for the power-intensive cannabis operations at the Green Sage buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But PG&E says it’s been working with Green Sage to find power solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we can’t get into specific customer account details for privacy reasons, PG&E has provided various options and recommended designs to meet the customer’s electric needs,” Tamar Sarkissian, a PG&E spokesperson, said in an emailed statement. “PG&E also has a capacity project in place to help support the growth of its customers in Oakland’s cannabis industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past year, Green Sage has said in a series of communications to tenants, city officials, regulators and KQED that it intends to install some form of clean-burning gas turbines to power their tenants’ cannabis operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given our current energy challenges, my mission is to help take the cannabis industry off-grid on methane gas from dairy farms, and develop a ground-breaking alternative,” Greer said in an email to KQED. “I am very driven to execute this solution so that other facilities around Oakland (and hopefully worldwide) can do the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The regional air district says that while it has discussed with Green Sage the possibility of gas turbines being installed at its properties, the company has yet to file an application to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that hasn’t stopped Greer from claiming on social media that generators are already up and running at the San Leandro Street complex, which he calls “the largest indoor cannabis facility in California.” (\u003ca href=\"https://www.greenhousegrower.com/crops/north-americas-largest-cannabis-growers-for-2021/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Industry sources indicate\u003c/a> California’s largest indoor pot facility — about five times larger than the Green Sage properties — is actually in the Riverside County city of Blythe.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/kengreer1/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LinkedIn\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ken.e.greer/about_work_and_education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook\u003c/a> profiles, Greer represents himself as founder and CEO of a company called New Grass Power LLC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“New Grass Power is a renewable energy company that provides low-cost, reliable power to the largest indoor cannabis facility in California,” his profiles say. “We use turbines powered by renewable natural gas from dairy farms so our facilities can become carbon negative and go off-grid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, there’s no evidence that New Grass Power is providing electricity in Oakland or anywhere else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Greer made statements in a January court filing that contradict his online claims about New Grass Power and make it clear that installing diesel generators has been standard operating procedure at the San Leandro Street warehouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21480862/5601-sloca-v-americas-brickworks-greer-declaration-220111.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a declaration\u003c/a> filed as part of an eviction action, Greer described how Green Sage supplies electricity to its cannabis tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Defendants were advised at the time they signed the lease that plaintiff provides power to all tenant [sic] by renting diesel generators,” Greer wrote. “Upon request from a tenant, plaintiff orders a generator. Generators are only provided when a tenant is prepared to test installed cannabis grow equipment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green Sage, which launched in 2014, says on \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20220324235644/https://greensagemb.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">its website\u003c/a> that it aims to help “set the standard for transparency, integrity and accountability in the cannabis industry.” The reality has been more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green Sage and its connected firms — it operates under the names of at least half a dozen different limited liability companies registered by Greer and Miller — have frequently found themselves the targets of lawsuits related to its Oakland business in state and federal courts in California, Colorado and Virginia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suits have included claims that Green Sage has illegally tried to force residential tenants out of The Cannery, that the firm has failed to live up to conditions in its leases with cannabis tenants and that it has failed to pay contractors for more than $3 million in work done at its San Leandro Street properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green Sage has responded in court with blanket denials to all allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Residents of The Cannery building have raised alarms for the past 20 months about the industrial generators and the pollution they’re emitting in a part of Oakland that has long suffered from hazardous air quality due to proximity to Interstate 880 and factories in the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the city has been unable to curb repeated building and fire code violations by Denver-based \u003ca href=\"https://greensagemb.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Green Sage\u003c/a>, the firm that owns The Cannery and an adjacent building called The Tinnery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21475890/city-of-oakland-march-21-2022-notice-of-violation-to-green-sage.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The notice sent Monday\u003c/a> to Green Sage and its owners — Ken Greer, 41, a former Massachusetts stockbroker, and Bruce Miller, 70, a real-estate agent with addresses in Los Angeles and Wyoming — gives the firm 30 days to stop using the seven generators currently operating at the San Leandro Street complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The threatened prosecution and other sanctions would add to the legal challenges facing Green Sage, whose Oakland operations have been entangled in more than \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16rALJbtz5xFiUOiQ4ObQo0IWUhKwD9S05kN0gDeEy70/edit?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two dozen lawsuits\u003c/a> in state and federal courts in California, Colorado and Virginia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland City Councilmember Loren Taylor, who represents the district that includes the Green Sage properties, says the situation shows the city needs to move faster and have better enforcement mechanisms in place when confronted by “out of bounds” cannabis operators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While I am grateful that this notice of violation has been issued with clear timeframes for required remediation and clarity around the penalties for insufficient response, this is an example of how our system works too slowly for the needs of tenants who are forced to deal with unbearable conditions on a daily basis,” Taylor said in an email statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company began installing generators at the complex in July 2020 after a PG&E transformer serving the buildings failed and a power line caught fire — apparently because of a sharp increase in power demand related to the cannabis operations. As many as nine generators have operated simultaneously at the site since then, with seven on site now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city alleges several violations of the state fire code and city ordinances, including operating the generators, using and storing diesel fuel without permits and exposing workers and residents at the complex to diesel fumes that pose “a grave risk to health and safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Monday notice says failure to stop using the generators by April 22 could result in the company having its property declared a public nuisance and being fined as much as $1,000 a day. The city also warned Green Sage that if it doesn’t comply, it could be referred to the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office for criminal prosecution of the alleged fire code violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The notice included 20 images of conditions at the two Green Sage properties, including two huge diesel generators stationed adjacent to the soot-blackened facade of one of the buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908996\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11908996\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM-800x450.png\" alt=\"Large diesel generators outside industrial building.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM-800x450.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM-1020x573.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM-160x90.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM-1536x864.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM-1920x1079.png 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Screen-Shot-2022-03-23-at-2.04.12-AM.png 1946w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Images from city of Oakland’s notice of violation to Green Sage, the Denver-based owners of the East Oakland cannabis facility. The city warned the owners to stop using the highly polluting generators or face potential criminal charges. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Oakland Fire Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Green Sage did not respond to an email seeking comment on the violation notice. In past statements to KQED, Greer has said he and Miller are “avid environmentalists” and that the generators are necessary because PG&E is unable to supply enough power to the facility’s energy-intensive cannabis growing and processing operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>PG&E disputes that assertion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green Sage paid $20 million in 2016 and 2017 to buy the two San Leandro Street properties — The Tinnery, at 5601 San Leandro St., and The Cannery, at 5733 San Leandro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theoaklandcannery.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Cannery\u003c/a> was not just any big brick building waiting for an out-of-town entrepreneur to turn it into a weed factory. It was one of Oakland’s first live/work artists’ communities and the long-time home of the celebrated \u003ca href=\"https://openspace.sfmoma.org/2019/10/a-restless-philosophical-quest-the-art-of-arthur-monroe/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">abstract expressionist painter Arthur Monroe\u003c/a>. He became the building’s first artist-tenant in the mid-1970s and lived there until his death in 2019 at age 84.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Michael Hunt, the Oakland Fire Department’s chief of staff, said in an email earlier this month that the generators should only have been used on a temporary basis and “were never meant for ongoing use.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Typically, Hunt said, a generator would be approved and permitted for 90 days. He said temporary approval was granted after the July 2020 transformer failure “to ensure that the live/work tenants [at The Cannery] had power. … The generators were at no time permitted as a permanent power source.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that residents are getting power from PG&E, “there is no justifiable need for the generators to be in use to keep power on in the live work units,” Hunt said. “The multiple unpermitted generators now are only augmenting the need for power to support the cannabis-related businesses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Green Sage also has come to the attention of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District. Last month the district filed its own \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21480754/bay-area-air-quality-management-district-green-sage-notice-of-violation-feb-16-2022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">notice of violation\u003c/a> against the company for failing to obtain a permit to operate the generators. The notice prompted Green Sage to apply for an air district permit, but the agency said as of Monday that application remained incomplete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a recent interview at the site, Councilmember Taylor said he was “frankly upset that the warehouse owners have been using industrial diesel generators as a permanent power source.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Generators are intended to be temporary, while we’re bridging a gap, not to be a long-term fixture in the community polluting and pushing out the chemicals into the air,” Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he’d expressed his concerns to city staff about ending the generators’ unpermitted use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11909005\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11909005 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-800x541.jpg\" alt=\"A large tanker truck is parked alongside a long metal fence in an industrial area. Across the street are the elevated BART tracks.\" width=\"800\" height=\"541\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-800x541.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-1020x690.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut-1536x1039.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54583_20220317-IMG_6392-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A tanker delivering diesel fuel to industrial generators outside the Green Sage cannabis complex on San Leandro Street in East Oakland. Seven generators at the site require daily fuel deliveries and burn more than 2,000 gallons of fuel a day. \u003ccite>(Amaya Nicole Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“That is something that we absolutely need to get on top of,” Taylor said. “We need to do more to ensure that it has stopped.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier attempts by city officials to address Green Sage code violations show just how hard it has been for them to get on top of the situation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last October, inspectors from three city agencies toured the Green Sage complex. That inspection, in turn, resulted in \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21423379/city-of-oakland-december-2021-green-sage-violation-notice.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a Dec. 7 letter\u003c/a> from city officials to Green Sage partners Greer and Miller. The missive noted the “collapsed” PG&E transformer, unpermitted electrical work and the installation of the diesel generators “without city-required inspections and permits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter said Greer and Miller would need to get both a Fire Department permit and sign-off from the city’s Bureau of Building “for interim use” of the generators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The message closed by warning the Green Sage owners that “failure to work with the city and take meaningful corrective measures to bring the identified issues into code compliance will result in the city seeking any and all appropriate legal remedies including fines, criminal penalties, suspension or revocation of any operational or occupancy permits and removal of the generators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hunt said inspectors returned to the company’s San Leandro Street properties in early January and “confirmed that state and local fire code violations were present and must be remedied.” But the generators have continued running nonstop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">I\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>n response to emailed questions last month, Greer said the generators are necessary because PG&E isn’t supplying enough electricity for the power-intensive cannabis operations at the Green Sage buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But PG&E says it’s been working with Green Sage to find power solutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we can’t get into specific customer account details for privacy reasons, PG&E has provided various options and recommended designs to meet the customer’s electric needs,” Tamar Sarkissian, a PG&E spokesperson, said in an emailed statement. “PG&E also has a capacity project in place to help support the growth of its customers in Oakland’s cannabis industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past year, Green Sage has said in a series of communications to tenants, city officials, regulators and KQED that it intends to install some form of clean-burning gas turbines to power their tenants’ cannabis operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given our current energy challenges, my mission is to help take the cannabis industry off-grid on methane gas from dairy farms, and develop a ground-breaking alternative,” Greer said in an email to KQED. “I am very driven to execute this solution so that other facilities around Oakland (and hopefully worldwide) can do the same.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The regional air district says that while it has discussed with Green Sage the possibility of gas turbines being installed at its properties, the company has yet to file an application to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that hasn’t stopped Greer from claiming on social media that generators are already up and running at the San Leandro Street complex, which he calls “the largest indoor cannabis facility in California.” (\u003ca href=\"https://www.greenhousegrower.com/crops/north-americas-largest-cannabis-growers-for-2021/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Industry sources indicate\u003c/a> California’s largest indoor pot facility — about five times larger than the Green Sage properties — is actually in the Riverside County city of Blythe.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/kengreer1/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LinkedIn\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ken.e.greer/about_work_and_education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook\u003c/a> profiles, Greer represents himself as founder and CEO of a company called New Grass Power LLC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“New Grass Power is a renewable energy company that provides low-cost, reliable power to the largest indoor cannabis facility in California,” his profiles say. “We use turbines powered by renewable natural gas from dairy farms so our facilities can become carbon negative and go off-grid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, there’s no evidence that New Grass Power is providing electricity in Oakland or anywhere else.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Greer made statements in a January court filing that contradict his online claims about New Grass Power and make it clear that installing diesel generators has been standard operating procedure at the San Leandro Street warehouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21480862/5601-sloca-v-americas-brickworks-greer-declaration-220111.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a declaration\u003c/a> filed as part of an eviction action, Greer described how Green Sage supplies electricity to its cannabis tenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Defendants were advised at the time they signed the lease that plaintiff provides power to all tenant [sic] by renting diesel generators,” Greer wrote. “Upon request from a tenant, plaintiff orders a generator. 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You have to be vigilant.’[/pullquote]The district said it has already addressed more than 90% of the 1,000 cases reported, and was working to resolve the remaining 59 by end of day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district also promised to retroactively cover associated expenses resulting from missed payments — such as late fees for credit card or mortgage payments or bills due to lapsed insurance — and to fix an error that prevented teachers from collecting their COVID sick pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We remain committed to ensuring every staff member receives all of the pay they are owed,” Superintendent Vincent Matthews said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school board must still approve the agreement at its meeting scheduled for next Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do feel good about this agreement and that we don’t have to drag out a long process in court,” said Cassondra Curiel, president of the United Educators of San Francisco, which represents some 6,500 teachers. “We know that we’ve secured an agreement for a penalty that incentivizes the district to move with absolute urgency to fix this, and that penalties will be incurred.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The payment issues stem from the district’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11907979/sf-school-district-apologizes-for-not-paying-underpaying-hundreds-of-teachers-but-the-problem-persists\">rocky transition to a new payroll system\u003c/a> launched in early January — at a cost of nearly $14 million — replacing an antiquated system it had been using for nearly two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those errors prompted some 20 teachers and their supporters to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11908196/sfusd-teachers-protest-missed-paychecks-and-payroll-glitches-at-headquarters-overnight\">occupy the third floor of district headquarters\u003c/a> on Monday to pressure officials to immediately compensate teachers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have exhausted our patience,” Curiel said on Monday. “Folks like to say teachers are heroes and angels. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://covid19.ca.gov/education/#:~:text=CDPH%20strongly%20recommends%20everyone%20continue,the%202021%2D2022%20school%20year.\">Today is the first day\u003c/a> many kids in California can see each other smile or frown throughout the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's because the state just ended it's indoor mask mandate for schools — the first time kids have had the option to lower their face coverings since most of them returned to in-person classes last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grace Richards is thrilled she doesn’t have to wear her Hello Kitty mask to second grade at her elementary school in Petaluma.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I can finally take it off and we can finally see everybody's personality!\" said Richards, smiling. “I know I’m going to be safe because we have to stay an arm's distance away from each other while eating and drinking.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not exactly true. Richards is still at risk if she’s sitting near someone who's infected. 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Kadel also highlights some other pros and cons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I appreciate that it hides my zits,” she said. “But it’s hard to breathe when I’m running in PE and it’s difficult to see what people look like.”[aside postID=\"news_11907526,forum_2010101888227,news_11906730\" label=\"Related Posts\"]Kadel is going to wait a week or two before showing her full face. She won’t be alone. State officials are still “strongly recommending” mask wearing in K-12 schools, rather than simply advising it or making it optional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Changing mask protocols could be hard for some kids to understand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It's natural for children to feel some anxiety,” said \u003ca href=\"https://childmind.org/bio/jennifer-louie-phd/\">Jennifer Louie\u003c/a>, a clinical psychologist at the Child Mind Institute, a nonprofit specializing in kids' mental health. “They might need time. 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I've gotten conflicting information from even the higher-ups, you know, from the principals and the coordinators.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As many as 1,500 educators in the San Francisco school district may not be receiving their full paychecks or haven’t been paid at all in the last month, according to United Educators of San Francisco, the teachers union, which represents some 6,500 educators in the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem stems from the district switching to a new accounting system, but may also speak to deeper troubles in its finance department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The turmoil comes as the district and school board leadership are under intense scrutiny for their inability to successfully manage finances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laura Dudnick, a spokesperson for the district, issued a statement saying the district apologizes, takes full responsibility and is trying to fix the issue, blaming problems on the transition from an antiquated payroll system to EMPowerSF, the new system that cost the district $9.5 million to install.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is inexcusable and should not have happened,” Dudnick said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district says the vast majority of its 10,000 employees have been properly paid through the new system, even as a growing number of teachers are reporting irregularities on their monthly paychecks — issues that first emerged two months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district has since moved 10 administrative staff from other duties to support payroll, a district spokesperson said in a statement, adding that staff are “working to figure out any error patterns caused by the new process or system configuration so that corrections are made for subsequent pay periods.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908039\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1196px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Kyle-Prince-SFUSD-teacher-e1647281348822.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11908039\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Kyle-Prince-SFUSD-teacher-e1647281348822.jpg\" alt=\"A man sits in a room, smiling, wearing a yellow jacket, perched on the armrest of a sofa.\" width=\"1196\" height=\"996\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Kyle-Prince-SFUSD-teacher-e1647281348822.jpg 1196w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Kyle-Prince-SFUSD-teacher-e1647281348822-800x666.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Kyle-Prince-SFUSD-teacher-e1647281348822-1020x849.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Kyle-Prince-SFUSD-teacher-e1647281348822-160x133.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1196px) 100vw, 1196px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kyle Prince, who teaches ethnic studies at Phillip and Sala Burton Academic High School in San Francisco, says he has been waiting three months for his missing pay from the district. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Kyle Prince)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like Prince, most of the educators affected are those who have additional jobs outside their main teaching positions — including those working extra hours as paraeducators, substitute teachers or Saturday school instructors.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some teachers, including those on leave, also have reported issues with benefits and withholdings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elisa Romero, a counselor with the district, got a call from her accountant last week. “My accountant was shocked. He told me I owed $8,000 between federal and state [taxes]. I usually owe about $2,000 every year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Romero told the district it had under-withheld her taxes in 2021, she said the district told her to go and change her withholding for the current year. But that won’t fix this year's problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will be wiping out a lot of savings to pay this and it feels like a punch in the stomach. I owe a lot of money because the district screwed up,” she said. “It's a bitter pill to swallow. It's very hard to come up with $8,000 by April 18, and I am considering selling my mutual funds to cover it. It just really brought me to tears.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the initial cost of installing the new payroll system, the school board last year approved two more payments for transition costs, totaling an additional $4.2 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They said the additional money was needed for more transitional time and prep,” said school board commissioner Matt Alexander, noting his frustration. “They wanted all that money to make for a smooth rollout, but all the stuff that they were trying to prevent is happening. It is anything but smooth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than a hundred educators had to take time off teaching and parent-teacher conferences last week to attend a district pop-up clinic to try to fix their paychecks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the district has made out 861 new checks to educators, according to the teachers union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district says it has set up a support-ticketing system to help accurately track and follow up on every issue of nonpayment or underpayment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Linh Gee, an English teacher at Burton High, said she filed several tickets since realizing the district underpaid her roughly $4,500 — and was told a payroll specialist would assist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That's the third time that I've submitted the ticket, and so far no one has reached out to me,” said Gee, who also teaches online and night classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11908038\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Linh-Gee-SFUSD-teacher.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11908038\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Linh-Gee-SFUSD-teacher.jpg\" alt=\"A young woman smiling.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Linh-Gee-SFUSD-teacher.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Linh-Gee-SFUSD-teacher-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Linh-Gee-SFUSD-teacher-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Linh-Gee-SFUSD-teacher-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Linh-Gee-SFUSD-teacher-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Burton High teacher Linh Gee says she has filed multiple help tickets with the district to recoup the nearly $4,500 the district owes her. 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"content": "\u003cp>In a highly anticipated move, San Francisco Mayor London Breed on Friday appointed three new members to the San Francisco school board Friday, filling seats that were vacated after last month’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11904879/sf-school-board-recall-results-alison-collins-gabriela-lopez-and-faauuga-moliga-headed-for-recall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">landslide recall election\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a ceremony at Galileo Academy of Science and Technology, Breed’s alma mater, the mayor swore in Ann Hsu, Lainie Motamedi and Lisa Weissman-Ward, who will join the seven-member Board of Education. All three women are parents of students currently in the district and, like Breed, have called for greater fiscal responsibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m so happy and I’m so proud that we have three amazing women who all have kids in our public school system, who all had a common theme of service,” said Breed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They replace Alison Collins, Gabriela López and Faauuga Moliga, who were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101887882/san-francisco-votes-out-three-school-members\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ousted in a citywide recall vote\u003c/a> on Feb. 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three new commissioners will complete the remaining terms of their ousted predecessors, which end this year. All three face reelection campaigns in November, should they wish to keep their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed, who supported the recall, said her pick decisions came after what she described as weeks of meetings with parents and candidate interviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve really agonized over this decision,” Breed said. “This is probably the hardest decision that I’ve ever had to make as mayor because it’s about the future of our children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The newly composed board will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11905617/the-sf-school-board-recall-won-in-a-landslide-now-what\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">immediately face a complex set of issues\u003c/a> and, potentially, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11905363/with-the-school-board-recall-finally-over-whats-next-for-education-politics-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">freshly energized parent base closely watching over their shoulders\u003c/a>. Vincent Matthews, the district’s current superintendent, has said he is stepping down in June, so the new board will be charged with hiring his successor. Many parents who supported the recall said they wanted a more competent board to select the district’s next leader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hsu, the president of Galileo’s Parent Teacher Student Association, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11904873/political-ads-in-sf-school-board-recall-election-target-chinese-speaking-voters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">appeared in pro-recall advertisements\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11901813/sf-school-board-recall-drives-more-non-citizen-voters-to-register\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">worked to register Asian American voters\u003c/a> ahead of the special election. She also serves on the SFUSD Citizens’ Bond Oversight Committee.[aside label=\"Related Coverage\" tag=\"sf-school-board-recall\"]“Being a first-generation immigrant, I also want to lift up the concerns and interests of the significant immigrant parents community in SFUSD,” said Hsu, who lives in the Richmond District, and started her own business after emigrating from China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Motamedi, from the city’s Inner Sunset neighborhood, also has firsthand experience working with San Francisco’s school district, where she helped to oversee school spending as a co-chair of the district’s Public Education Enrichment Fund committee. She\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> also served as a member of its \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/lcap-task-force\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Local Control and Accountability Plan task force\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My focus is to bring my experience and our collective experience to help all families and children in this city to get the support they need as we do the really, really challenging work to get our district back on track,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weissman-Ward, Breed’s third appointee, lives in the Mission District and is associate director of the Stanford Law School Immigrants’ Rights Clinic. Joining the board after years of contentious meetings that have at times erupted in bitter clashes among members, parents and students, she underscored the “importance of process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve learned the value and importance of investing time into building rapport in order to better find common ground,” she said. “Because if even at the outset we don’t agree, when we engage in a process that’s thoughtful, that’s transparent and that’s fair, we’ll be in a better position to move things forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new superintendent and board will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11905363/with-the-school-board-recall-finally-over-whats-next-for-education-politics-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">be tasked with long-standing issues\u003c/a>, such as falling enrollment and racial gaps in academic achievement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district also is currently trying to solve problems with a new payroll operating system it began using in January. The transition to the new program has left some 200 educators \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/education/sfusd-employees-feel-disrespected-after-missing-full-or-partial-paychecks/\">either underpaid or without checks at all\u003c/a>, and is causing problems for nearly 1,000 more, according to the United Educators of San Francisco, which is threatening a class-action lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also looming large are the final budget cuts that need approval to solve the district’s $125 million budget deficit. The outgoing board approved all but $3.8 million in cuts, refusing to lay off some 47 paraeducator positions. Instead, it asked the district to cut more management positions, and delayed delivery of its second interim budget report to the state — which it now must submit by March 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we fight for the schools our students deserve, we look forward to working with the 3 BOE appointees,” the city’s teachers union said in a statement. “Educators know our students deserve stable, staffed & funded schools to thrive and hope the BOE is prepared to work with educators, families & our communities to achieve this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite waning COVID-19 case levels in the city, the pandemic continues to pose challenges to how schools are run. Beginning on March 14, indoor masking will be optional for the district’s middle and high school students, with elementary schools following suit on April 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, some parents of children who are immunocompromised continue to speak out against the policy change, and the new board will certainly be managing how the district responds to any future variants. Frustration over the district’s decision to delay reopening schools during the pandemic was a major factor fueling the recall movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the most politically fraught issue facing the new board members, however, is the admissions policy at the city’s elite Lowell High School. It remains to be seen whether the new board will bow to intense pressure from some parents and alumni to reinstate the school’s merit-based admissions policy, or keep in place the new lottery system, which has helped significantly increase the number of Black and Latino students in this year’s freshman class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/why-californias-education-code-does-not-prohibit-academic-admissions-at-lowell-high-school/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">arguments from the Lowell Alumni Association\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=C9CSB26EC44E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">district has maintained\u003c/a> that a return to admissions based on academic performance would violate state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to questionnaires from the supporters of the recall campaign, \u003ca href=\"https://www.recallsfschoolboard.org/candidates/ann-hsu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hsu\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.recallsfschoolboard.org/candidates/lainie-motamedi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Motamedi\u003c/a> both said they would support reinstating Lowell’s merit-based admissions process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weissman-Ward stopped short of saying where she stood on the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a general matter I’ll say I support equity, I support access and I support academically rigorous programs and I think as many people that can be a part of that is what I support,” she said on Friday. “And we probably need to be lifting up and having more schools that are able to allow students to have these academically rigorous programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next regularly scheduled board meeting is March 22, 2022.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed, who supported the recall, said her pick decisions came after what she described as weeks of meetings with parents and candidate interviews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve really agonized over this decision,” Breed said. “This is probably the hardest decision that I’ve ever had to make as mayor because it’s about the future of our children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The newly composed board will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11905617/the-sf-school-board-recall-won-in-a-landslide-now-what\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">immediately face a complex set of issues\u003c/a> and, potentially, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11905363/with-the-school-board-recall-finally-over-whats-next-for-education-politics-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">freshly energized parent base closely watching over their shoulders\u003c/a>. Vincent Matthews, the district’s current superintendent, has said he is stepping down in June, so the new board will be charged with hiring his successor. Many parents who supported the recall said they wanted a more competent board to select the district’s next leader.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hsu, the president of Galileo’s Parent Teacher Student Association, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11904873/political-ads-in-sf-school-board-recall-election-target-chinese-speaking-voters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">appeared in pro-recall advertisements\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11901813/sf-school-board-recall-drives-more-non-citizen-voters-to-register\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">worked to register Asian American voters\u003c/a> ahead of the special election. She also serves on the SFUSD Citizens’ Bond Oversight Committee.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Being a first-generation immigrant, I also want to lift up the concerns and interests of the significant immigrant parents community in SFUSD,” said Hsu, who lives in the Richmond District, and started her own business after emigrating from China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Motamedi, from the city’s Inner Sunset neighborhood, also has firsthand experience working with San Francisco’s school district, where she helped to oversee school spending as a co-chair of the district’s Public Education Enrichment Fund committee. She\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> also served as a member of its \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfusd.edu/lcap-task-force\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Local Control and Accountability Plan task force\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My focus is to bring my experience and our collective experience to help all families and children in this city to get the support they need as we do the really, really challenging work to get our district back on track,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weissman-Ward, Breed’s third appointee, lives in the Mission District and is associate director of the Stanford Law School Immigrants’ Rights Clinic. Joining the board after years of contentious meetings that have at times erupted in bitter clashes among members, parents and students, she underscored the “importance of process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve learned the value and importance of investing time into building rapport in order to better find common ground,” she said. “Because if even at the outset we don’t agree, when we engage in a process that’s thoughtful, that’s transparent and that’s fair, we’ll be in a better position to move things forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new superintendent and board will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11905363/with-the-school-board-recall-finally-over-whats-next-for-education-politics-in-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">be tasked with long-standing issues\u003c/a>, such as falling enrollment and racial gaps in academic achievement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district also is currently trying to solve problems with a new payroll operating system it began using in January. The transition to the new program has left some 200 educators \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/education/sfusd-employees-feel-disrespected-after-missing-full-or-partial-paychecks/\">either underpaid or without checks at all\u003c/a>, and is causing problems for nearly 1,000 more, according to the United Educators of San Francisco, which is threatening a class-action lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also looming large are the final budget cuts that need approval to solve the district’s $125 million budget deficit. The outgoing board approved all but $3.8 million in cuts, refusing to lay off some 47 paraeducator positions. Instead, it asked the district to cut more management positions, and delayed delivery of its second interim budget report to the state — which it now must submit by March 22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we fight for the schools our students deserve, we look forward to working with the 3 BOE appointees,” the city’s teachers union said in a statement. “Educators know our students deserve stable, staffed & funded schools to thrive and hope the BOE is prepared to work with educators, families & our communities to achieve this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite waning COVID-19 case levels in the city, the pandemic continues to pose challenges to how schools are run. Beginning on March 14, indoor masking will be optional for the district’s middle and high school students, with elementary schools following suit on April 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, some parents of children who are immunocompromised continue to speak out against the policy change, and the new board will certainly be managing how the district responds to any future variants. Frustration over the district’s decision to delay reopening schools during the pandemic was a major factor fueling the recall movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps the most politically fraught issue facing the new board members, however, is the admissions policy at the city’s elite Lowell High School. It remains to be seen whether the new board will bow to intense pressure from some parents and alumni to reinstate the school’s merit-based admissions policy, or keep in place the new lottery system, which has helped significantly increase the number of Black and Latino students in this year’s freshman class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfexaminer.com/opinion/why-californias-education-code-does-not-prohibit-academic-admissions-at-lowell-high-school/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">arguments from the Lowell Alumni Association\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://go.boarddocs.com/ca/sfusd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=C9CSB26EC44E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">district has maintained\u003c/a> that a return to admissions based on academic performance would violate state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to questionnaires from the supporters of the recall campaign, \u003ca href=\"https://www.recallsfschoolboard.org/candidates/ann-hsu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hsu\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.recallsfschoolboard.org/candidates/lainie-motamedi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Motamedi\u003c/a> both said they would support reinstating Lowell’s merit-based admissions process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Weissman-Ward stopped short of saying where she stood on the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a general matter I’ll say I support equity, I support access and I support academically rigorous programs and I think as many people that can be a part of that is what I support,” she said on Friday. “And we probably need to be lifting up and having more schools that are able to allow students to have these academically rigorous programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On a recent evening, 10-year-old Katie Noriega and her mom snuggled up together to read a story at their home in San José. The bilingual book in Spanish and English they dove into, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.forall-paratodos.net/\">Para Todos/For All\u003c/a>,” by Bay Area-based author Alejandra Domenzain, tells the story of the struggles of a young girl named Flor and her father, who are forced to flee their homeland and look for opportunity in a new country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘Are we going to the land that we see on TV? Will we fly in a plane? Will there be more toys for me?’” Katie read aloud to her mom. “‘Her dad forced a smile and put on a brave face. It won’t be so easy to get to that place.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katie’s mom, Rocio Gonzalez, read the same lines, in Spanish:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘¿Vamos a ese lugar que vemos en la tele? ¿Iremos en avión? ¿Tendré muchos juguetes? Su papa sonrió a medias y se armó de valor. No será fácil llegar.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11907427\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 357px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11907427\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54107_Cover-with-logo-10_26-qut-800x1002.jpg\" alt=\"A children's book cover: "For All/Para Todos"\" width=\"357\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54107_Cover-with-logo-10_26-qut-800x1002.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54107_Cover-with-logo-10_26-qut-1020x1277.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54107_Cover-with-logo-10_26-qut-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54107_Cover-with-logo-10_26-qut-1227x1536.jpg 1227w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54107_Cover-with-logo-10_26-qut.jpg 1617w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cover of ‘Para Todos/For All,’ a bilingual book by Alejandra Domenzain, with illustrations by Katherine Loh. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Hard Ball Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Katie has lived in the U.S. her entire life. She understands Spanish and speaks it a little bit, but feels more comfortable reading in English. The opposite is true for Rocio, who spent her formative years in Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though they’re reading in different languages, Katie and Rocio said they get a lot out of reading this book together. Katie responded to Flor’s courage and tenacity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think she’s a strong person because she never gave up,” Katie said. “She just kept going.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rocio said books like “Para Todos” help connect the dots between what she has — and has not — yet told her daughter about her own complex immigration journey, when she moved to California from Jalisco, Mexico, in her late teens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By bringing in these types of books, we can connect them with what we’ve already talked — or not talked — about regarding our own journeys,” Rocio said in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Heard and validated’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A growing number of children’s book authors and literacy activists have been pushing for more bilingual books for kids, like “Para Todos.” That objective resonates with many bilingual households, particularly in California, where more than a quarter of residents speak Spanish as a first language.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A number of academic studies in recent years have shown that \u003ca href=\"https://scholarship.depauw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1078&context=studentresearch\">bilingual books help improve literacy levels\u003c/a> among immigrant families where English is not spoken at home, especially when the stories highlight diverse characters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having access to books where you feel represented or you feel heard and validated is a great thing to have at such a young age,” said Belen Delgado, education policy program associate at the\u003ca href=\"https://doloreshuerta.org/\"> Dolores Huerta Foundation\u003c/a>, a grassroots activism hub with several chapters in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A small but growing number of bilingual children’s titles are taking that model a step further, by not only centering Latinx characters, but also making them powerful agents of change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In “Para Todos,” for instance, the main character, Flor, becomes an immigrant rights activist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not just about, ‘Let’s have diverse characters and diverse stories,’” said author Domenzain, who lives in Foster City. “It’s, ‘Let’s look at the structural systems that are causing the injustice and have on-ramps for young people to question them and know that it’s possible to make structural changes.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Belen Delgado, Dolores Huerta Foundation\"]‘Having access to books where you feel represented or you feel heard and validated is a great thing to have at such a young age.’[/pullquote]Other bilingual children’s book writers agree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ann Berlak is the Oakland-based author of “\u003ca href=\"https://bookshop.org/books/joelito-s-big-decision-la-gran-decision-de-joelito/9780986240096\">La Gran Decisión de Joelito/Joelito’s Big Decision\u003c/a>,” a 2015 book about an 11-year-old boy who must decide whether to eat a hamburger at his favorite restaurant or join his best friend and his friend’s father on the picket line to fight for higher wages for lower-income workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I decided to write ‘Joelito’ as an example of how people can not only know that there’s an alternative, but fight for an alternative,” Berlak said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.monicabrown.net/\">Mónica Brown\u003c/a>, who grew up in the Bay Area, has written a slew of bilingual children’s titles focusing on famous activists from history, including “\u003ca href=\"https://www.harpercollins.com/products/side-by-sidelado-a-lado-monica-brown\">Lado a Lado/Side by Side\u003c/a>,” her book about Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11907762\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54109_Monica-Brown-with-kids-qut-800x531-1.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11907762 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54109_Monica-Brown-with-kids-qut-800x531-1.jpeg\" alt=\"A woman reads to a group of young children.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54109_Monica-Brown-with-kids-qut-800x531-1.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54109_Monica-Brown-with-kids-qut-800x531-1-160x106.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Author Mónica Brown reads to a group of children. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Mónica Brown)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They imagined great things and believed in themselves, and with community support were able to accomplish extraordinary things,” said Brown of her protagonists. “And I want each child to think they can, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Leticia Hernández-Linares’s new book, “\u003ca href=\"https://risehomestories.com/alejandria/home/\">La Lucha de Alejandria!/¡Alejandria Fights Back!\u003c/a>,” tackles the issue of eviction, something the San Francisco mother of two said she once faced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our children — my children — have been and continue to be exposed to these things,” said Hernández-Linares, who wrote the book as part of \u003ca href=\"https://risehomestories.com/\">Rise-Home Stories\u003c/a>, a national storytelling project about housing, land rights and racial justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Teachers and parents have been very grateful and excited about this book as a vehicle to open up discussion around hard things with their kids,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Barriers to access\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite the positive reception, it’s been challenging for these authors to get their books into the hands of families that may need them most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one thing, there simply aren’t enough of these books available yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to data from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education, which tracks diversity in children’s literature, \u003ca href=\"https://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/literature-resources/ccbc-diversity-statistics/books-by-about-poc-fnn/\">books with Latinx protagonists made up only around 7%\u003c/a> of the U.S. children’s book publishing industry last year. There were \u003ca href=\"https://www.slj.com/story/an-updated-look-at-diversity-in-childrens-books\">almost twice as many titles \u003c/a>with Black characters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you go to a progressive bookstore, you’ll see a very small Spanish-language section, then you see a tiny bilingual,” said Timothy Sheard, who runs \u003ca href=\"https://www.hardballpress.com/index.html\">Hard Ball Press\u003c/a>, the small indie publisher of “Para Todos,” “La Gran Decisión de Joelito” and other bilingual social justice books for children. “The bilingual is not as common in bookstores as it could be, given the population.”[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"arts_13900685,arts_13877896,arts_13874840\"]NJ Mvondo is a media diversity advocate who spent years working in an independent bookstore in Palo Alto, before founding\u003ca href=\"https://multiculturalism.rocks/author/multiculturalismrocks/\"> Multiculturalism Rocks\u003c/a>, an online platform that advocates for cultural diversity in media, especially in children’s content.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Something I observed was that many families came in asking for these books, and they had trouble finding them,” she said. “But when these books would be on the floor, they would sell quickly. They would usually sell out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when bookstores do stock these books, an added barrier is their cost, Mvondo noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the families that really need those books don’t have enough of a budget for them,” she said. “They’re focused on buying food, paying rent and taking the kids to school and all that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many libraries also are struggling to acquire bilingual children’s books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People see a book and they’re like, ‘Well, I saw it on Amazon. How come you can’t just order it?’ And we really wish it was that easy,” said Elizabeth Perez, a children’s librarian at San Francisco Public Library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most bilingual titles are self-published or put out by indie presses, Perez said, which makes them hard to find on the approved-vendor lists the library uses to purchase books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes our own hands are tied,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Changing times \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It doesn’t help matters that California voters in 1986\u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_63,_English_is_the_Official_Language_Amendment_(1986)\"> declared English the state’s “official language”\u003c/a> with the overwhelming passage of Proposition 63. That was followed 12 years later by \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/1998/227_06_1998.htm#:~:text=This%20proposition%20significantly%20changes%20the,bilingual%22%20classes%20in%20most%20cases.\">Proposition 227\u003c/a>, which significantly restricted bilingual education in the state’s public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, since Prop 227’s repeal in 2016, the California Department of Education has worked to increase\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/california-bilingual-programs-ready-to-grow-after-slowing-during-pandemic/655455#:~:text=Under%20the%20California%20Department%20of,or%20more%20languages%20by%202040.\"> bilingual programs\u003c/a>. Mvondo said together with this effort, she’s starting to see more bilingual titles with diverse protagonists addressing social justice themes. “It’s growing,” she said. “The No. 1 factor has been mobilization from children’s authors, illustrators and publishers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11907764\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 692px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Picture4.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11907764 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Picture4.jpg\" alt=\"A woman reads a storybook to a large classroom of young children.\" width=\"692\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Picture4.jpg 692w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Picture4-160x124.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A volunteer from the ‘Jeepney of Hope’ project reads a storybook to an elementary school classroom in the Philippines. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Ana Maria Bacudio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She added, “These books for kids are one of those very rare things in literacy that bring a whole family or community together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Inspiring real-world change\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Such is the case with Mónica Brown’s “\u003ca href=\"http://www.monicabrown.net/books/biblioburro.html\">Waiting for the Biblioburro\u003c/a>” — or “Esperando el Biblioburro” — which tells the story of a mobile library that travels throughout rural Colombia bringing books to children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said she was recently contacted by an educator in the Philippines who was deeply inspired by the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I read that book, it gave me an idea that I could replicate that,” said Ana Maria Bacudio, a medical technologist in the Philippines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years ago, Bacudio launched a roving literary service for kids in underserved communities around her country. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Other bilingual children’s book writers agree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ann Berlak is the Oakland-based author of “\u003ca href=\"https://bookshop.org/books/joelito-s-big-decision-la-gran-decision-de-joelito/9780986240096\">La Gran Decisión de Joelito/Joelito’s Big Decision\u003c/a>,” a 2015 book about an 11-year-old boy who must decide whether to eat a hamburger at his favorite restaurant or join his best friend and his friend’s father on the picket line to fight for higher wages for lower-income workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I decided to write ‘Joelito’ as an example of how people can not only know that there’s an alternative, but fight for an alternative,” Berlak said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.monicabrown.net/\">Mónica Brown\u003c/a>, who grew up in the Bay Area, has written a slew of bilingual children’s titles focusing on famous activists from history, including “\u003ca href=\"https://www.harpercollins.com/products/side-by-sidelado-a-lado-monica-brown\">Lado a Lado/Side by Side\u003c/a>,” her book about Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11907762\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54109_Monica-Brown-with-kids-qut-800x531-1.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11907762 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54109_Monica-Brown-with-kids-qut-800x531-1.jpeg\" alt=\"A woman reads to a group of young children.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54109_Monica-Brown-with-kids-qut-800x531-1.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54109_Monica-Brown-with-kids-qut-800x531-1-160x106.jpeg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Author Mónica Brown reads to a group of children. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Mónica Brown)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They imagined great things and believed in themselves, and with community support were able to accomplish extraordinary things,” said Brown of her protagonists. “And I want each child to think they can, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Leticia Hernández-Linares’s new book, “\u003ca href=\"https://risehomestories.com/alejandria/home/\">La Lucha de Alejandria!/¡Alejandria Fights Back!\u003c/a>,” tackles the issue of eviction, something the San Francisco mother of two said she once faced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our children — my children — have been and continue to be exposed to these things,” said Hernández-Linares, who wrote the book as part of \u003ca href=\"https://risehomestories.com/\">Rise-Home Stories\u003c/a>, a national storytelling project about housing, land rights and racial justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Teachers and parents have been very grateful and excited about this book as a vehicle to open up discussion around hard things with their kids,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Barriers to access\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Despite the positive reception, it’s been challenging for these authors to get their books into the hands of families that may need them most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one thing, there simply aren’t enough of these books available yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to data from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Education, which tracks diversity in children’s literature, \u003ca href=\"https://ccbc.education.wisc.edu/literature-resources/ccbc-diversity-statistics/books-by-about-poc-fnn/\">books with Latinx protagonists made up only around 7%\u003c/a> of the U.S. children’s book publishing industry last year. There were \u003ca href=\"https://www.slj.com/story/an-updated-look-at-diversity-in-childrens-books\">almost twice as many titles \u003c/a>with Black characters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you go to a progressive bookstore, you’ll see a very small Spanish-language section, then you see a tiny bilingual,” said Timothy Sheard, who runs \u003ca href=\"https://www.hardballpress.com/index.html\">Hard Ball Press\u003c/a>, the small indie publisher of “Para Todos,” “La Gran Decisión de Joelito” and other bilingual social justice books for children. “The bilingual is not as common in bookstores as it could be, given the population.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>NJ Mvondo is a media diversity advocate who spent years working in an independent bookstore in Palo Alto, before founding\u003ca href=\"https://multiculturalism.rocks/author/multiculturalismrocks/\"> Multiculturalism Rocks\u003c/a>, an online platform that advocates for cultural diversity in media, especially in children’s content.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Something I observed was that many families came in asking for these books, and they had trouble finding them,” she said. “But when these books would be on the floor, they would sell quickly. They would usually sell out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when bookstores do stock these books, an added barrier is their cost, Mvondo noted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the families that really need those books don’t have enough of a budget for them,” she said. “They’re focused on buying food, paying rent and taking the kids to school and all that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many libraries also are struggling to acquire bilingual children’s books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People see a book and they’re like, ‘Well, I saw it on Amazon. How come you can’t just order it?’ And we really wish it was that easy,” said Elizabeth Perez, a children’s librarian at San Francisco Public Library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most bilingual titles are self-published or put out by indie presses, Perez said, which makes them hard to find on the approved-vendor lists the library uses to purchase books.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes our own hands are tied,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Changing times \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It doesn’t help matters that California voters in 1986\u003ca href=\"https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_63,_English_is_the_Official_Language_Amendment_(1986)\"> declared English the state’s “official language”\u003c/a> with the overwhelming passage of Proposition 63. That was followed 12 years later by \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/1998/227_06_1998.htm#:~:text=This%20proposition%20significantly%20changes%20the,bilingual%22%20classes%20in%20most%20cases.\">Proposition 227\u003c/a>, which significantly restricted bilingual education in the state’s public schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, since Prop 227’s repeal in 2016, the California Department of Education has worked to increase\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/california-bilingual-programs-ready-to-grow-after-slowing-during-pandemic/655455#:~:text=Under%20the%20California%20Department%20of,or%20more%20languages%20by%202040.\"> bilingual programs\u003c/a>. Mvondo said together with this effort, she’s starting to see more bilingual titles with diverse protagonists addressing social justice themes. “It’s growing,” she said. “The No. 1 factor has been mobilization from children’s authors, illustrators and publishers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11907764\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 692px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Picture4.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11907764 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Picture4.jpg\" alt=\"A woman reads a storybook to a large classroom of young children.\" width=\"692\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Picture4.jpg 692w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/Picture4-160x124.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A volunteer from the ‘Jeepney of Hope’ project reads a storybook to an elementary school classroom in the Philippines. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Ana Maria Bacudio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She added, “These books for kids are one of those very rare things in literacy that bring a whole family or community together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Inspiring real-world change\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Such is the case with Mónica Brown’s “\u003ca href=\"http://www.monicabrown.net/books/biblioburro.html\">Waiting for the Biblioburro\u003c/a>” — or “Esperando el Biblioburro” — which tells the story of a mobile library that travels throughout rural Colombia bringing books to children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said she was recently contacted by an educator in the Philippines who was deeply inspired by the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When I read that book, it gave me an idea that I could replicate that,” said Ana Maria Bacudio, a medical technologist in the Philippines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years ago, Bacudio launched a roving literary service for kids in underserved communities around her country. 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"content": "\u003cp>On Saturday afternoon, Oakland Unified School District employee Timothy Killings stood in front of a crowd of parents, teachers and community members scattered across the lawn at Markham Elementary School in East Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The point of this town hall is to bring the sites under the most immediate threat together, so we could get some plans of actions going,” he said. “Truth be told, we should have been in the streets, like, yesterday.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group had assembled to plan protests of the district's planned school consolidations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sitting in clusters together in the grass, looking like students at recess, participants debated whether or not teachers should strike, school board members should be recalled, and other solutions, like lobbying state lawmakers in Sacramento to send funding to stave off the district’s budget woes. One idea floated would even see opponents of school closures partner with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union workers at Oakland’s port, since both say they are fighting privatization — of the port and of schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When not organizing resistance, Killings is a case manager at Oakland Unified School District’s Westlake Middle School. But on Saturday, his day off, he helped organize Oakland residents to push back against the district's proposed school closures, mergers and grade truncations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11905987\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11905987\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/IMG_7909-1.jpg\" alt=\"A few dozen people sit in the grass, many cross-legged, facing a speaker that is off-camera. 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Black students are also disproportionately affected – about 43% of students at the eight sites on the original school closure list are Black, almost twice the proportion of Black students in the entire district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district's plan for school closures was originally announced at the end of January, and attributed to\u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2021/12/17/oakland-unified-budget-deficit-enrollment-attendance/\"> a roughly $40 million budget deficit and declining enrollment\u003c/a>. The plan was amended, decreasing the number of schools affected, on February 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, February 18, the school board held an emergency meeting to consider further changes to the plan but, at the end of the night, voted to move forward with the plan they had already approved that would see schools shutter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district’s plan faced opposition from the start, and after the emergency meeting that resistance is blossoming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Timothy Killings, organizer and Oakland educator\"]'Truth be told, we should have been in the streets, like, yesterday.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Saturday, parents and alumni of Parker K-8 rallied on MacArthur Boulevard in Oakland’s Eastmont neighborhood. Around 20 frustrated parents, alumni and people living in the neighborhood waved signs and drummed up enthusiasm, in the form of honks, from passing cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those fed-up parents rallying was Rochelle Jenkins, who worries for the education of her three OUSD students. Jenkins spoke to passing cars through a speaker. She directed her words to board members through a loudspeaker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How dare you guys come down and try to take the thing that is needed in each and every last community,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jenkins says she plans to protest until the school board calls off the closure of Parker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two OUSD employees began a hunger strike in protest of the plans at the start of the month. One of those employees ended their strike at the emergency meeting Friday; the other, Maurice André San-Chez, a teacher at Westlake Middle School, announced the end of their hunger strike in an Instagram post on Sunday, February 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Time to recover and gain strength to continue this battle,” they wrote on Instagram. “The torch is in your hands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CaOMXP9Fcoe/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the emergency meeting, others said they would join the hunger strike if the board voted in favor of the current plan — and that’s exactly how the board voted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the anger at the school closures may have manifested in vandalism. 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"content": "\u003cp>The results of Tuesday's recall elections against three San Francisco school board members were incontrovertible: Voters overwhelmingly backed the removal of Alison Collins, Gabriela López and Faauuga Moliga from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What happens next for the board, the district and school politics in San Francisco, however, is less clear. New school board members will inherit the immediate tasks of managing the district and longer-term challenges of boosting enrollment and student achievement. The sudden fevered interest in local education, meanwhile, could reshape who runs for school board in the future, or fizzle out with the recall over and the pandemic receding.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Alida Fisher, San Francisco special education advocate\"]'We've got all these other huge, huge issues that we need to tackle that are absolutely impacting what's happening in our schools, and yet what we're talking about is only these three people on the school board.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The staggering changes wrought by the pandemic that abruptly shifted education from the classroom to the living room, and school board meetings from Franklin Street to Zoom, also amplified public interest and engagement in school issues, said Alida Fisher, a special education advocate in San Francisco, who called it \"the blessing and the curse.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don't think that engagement will ever go away as long as we've got more visibility. I think transparency is good, visibility is good,\" said Fisher, a former school board candidate who opposed the recalls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for too many, she said, the election will be seen as a panacea for the district's plights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We've got all these other huge, huge issues that we need to tackle that are absolutely impacting what's happening in our schools, and yet what we're talking about is only these three people on the school board,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The future direction of the board will be determined in part by Mayor London Breed's selection of three new commissioners, who could take office 10 days after the Board of Supervisors certifies the election results — likely in early March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, Breed held a press conference outlining her process for selecting the new board members, emphasizing a focus on candidates who could manage the district's finances, and promising to focus on \"all those kids who don't have advocates.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DeanPreston/status/1494185956919840768\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">To the chagrin of many recall opponents\u003c/a>, who lamented the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11904052/campaign-to-recall-three-san-francisco-school-board-members-vastly-outspending-opposition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vast sums donated by charter and voucher supporters\u003c/a> to the recall campaign, Breed has refused to rule out the appointment of a board member who supports the expansion of charter schools in the city, or the use of public dollars for private schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's been a lot of different kinds of people who have been involved in the push for this recall from all walks of life,\" Breed said. \"And to attribute it to one group of people is really not fair to the work that so many of the grassroots people who have children in our public school system have done.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An early favorite for appointment to the board is Ann Hsu, the president of the Parent Teacher Student Association at Galileo Academy of Science and Technology, Breed's alma mater. As the chair of the district's Citizens' Bond Oversight Committee, she'd take office with knowledge of school finances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the weeks leading up to the election, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11901813/sf-school-board-recall-drives-more-non-citizen-voters-to-register\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hsu led the voter registration\u003c/a> drive of hundreds of Chinese American residents, along with noncitizen parents who were able to vote in the election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11905789\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11905789\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53062_023_KQED_BethLaBerge_SchoolBoardRecallPresser_01142022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53062_023_KQED_BethLaBerge_SchoolBoardRecallPresser_01142022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53062_023_KQED_BethLaBerge_SchoolBoardRecallPresser_01142022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53062_023_KQED_BethLaBerge_SchoolBoardRecallPresser_01142022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53062_023_KQED_BethLaBerge_SchoolBoardRecallPresser_01142022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53062_023_KQED_BethLaBerge_SchoolBoardRecallPresser_01142022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Laurance Lee speaks during a press conference held by the Chinese/API Voter Outreach Taskforce on Jan. 14, 2021. He fears the city is approaching a 'cliff of interest' in school politics. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Whoever Breed picks will face two immediate challenges: picking a new superintendent to manage the day-to-day affairs of the district, and dealing with an ongoing budget deficit. On Friday, the board announced it would extend the application deadline for the superintendent job through the end of March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s hard to tell how soon these new commissioners can get up to speed on items,\" said Laurance Lee, a recall supporter who writes a newsletter about the Board of Education. \"That's a big concern for me if some of these commissioners are coming in without having followed these meetings in detail.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Furthermore, the district is facing a steady decline in enrollment that could further imperil school funding, which is largely based on attendance. And it must continue to address the longstanding and persistent achievement gaps between white and Asian students and their Black and Latino peers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, the three seats opened by the recall will go back before voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee said he fears the city is approaching a \"cliff of interest\" in school politics after a recall election that, while contentious and headline-grabbing, only brought out roughly a third of city voters to the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But others are more sanguine about the prospects of the recall setting in motion a continued attentiveness to the governance of city schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he ran, unsuccessfully, for the school board in 2018, John Trasviña said he remembers meeting indifferent voters who sometimes mistakenly thought he was already serving as a commissioner. But now he expects that to change, he said.[aside label=\"Related Coverage\" tag=\"sf-school-board-recall\"]\"I think we're going to have a lot more engagement, a lot more attention, a lot more scrutiny,\" said Trasviña, who serves as head of the Lowell High School alumni association, and who rallied against recent efforts to scrap the elite school's merit-based admissions system — among the lightning-rod issues that fueled the recall campaign. \"And really, that's the way it should be. The schools are incredibly important.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Josephine Zhao, another former school board aspirant, said the recall has particularly \"awakened and empowered\" Chinese voters in the city, many of whom were motivated by the admissions changes at majority-Asian Lowell, as well as controversial 2016 tweets written by Collins about Asian Americans. Election returns show stronger support for the recall in majority-Asian neighborhoods such as Chinatown, Visitacion Valley, the Sunset and Portola, as compared to citywide totals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The recall school board movement has actually tapped into some of the anger in the communities, that a lot of the Chinese and AAPI community do not feel that they have the respect from the school board members,\" Zhao said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other parents and advocates feel the recall tidal wave will discourage some potential future candidates from pursuing a seat on the board, or wash away the focus that the recalled members placed on pursuing equity for Black and Latino students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, Collins, López and Moliga were three of the 19 candidates who ran for school board in San Francisco. Fisher, who also ran that year, remembers dozens more candidates filing initial paperwork to pursue a seat, a reflection of the Trump-era surge of civic participation on the left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Could the specter of a vitriolic recall campaign add a new deterrent for school board participation — on top of the meager $500 in monthly pay? Fisher worries the board will risk losing \"the teacher, the social worker voice\" that López, Collins and Moliga brought into office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the ouster of those three board members, who championed issues like changing the admissions process at Lowell to boost Black and Latino enrollment, Cassondra Curiel, president of United Educators of San Francisco, said she's concerned future members won't \"center those populations that have been historically marginalized.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Do we see a swing happening to the center ... where folks don't advance, don't discuss and want to shy and hide away from those issues, from actions that would have visible physical and mental positive impacts on students?\" said Curiel. \"Surely, surely we might see that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco voters also will soon have a say in whether the recall process itself will continue to loom as a threat to sitting lawmakers, however rare. A measure placed this week on the June ballot by the Board of Supervisors would add more restrictions to who can be recalled, and prevent any mayoral replacements from immediately running again.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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